Coverage: South America

Research

Words That Travel Armed

This glossary examines the security vocabulary that the United States has projected into Brazil's 2026 presidential election — narcoterrorism, Foreign Terrorist Organization, cartel, hemispheric threat — and tests, term by term, whether each one actually traveled from Washington or arrived by some other route.
Public Policy

Not a Tropical Capitol

As Brazil struggles to understand an attempted coup d'état, it's clear that challenges to Latin America's largest democracy remain.
News + Media

Lula wins but Bolsonarismo remains: Ana Barreto on the 2022 Brazilian election

Security in Context's Roosbelinda Cárdenas interviews scholar Ana Barreto about Brazil's general elections, the results of which were finalized on October 30th, 2022.